Foam Wordsearch from Teach Beside Me. Thought it would make a fun way for the lad to find words that he knows.
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Foam Wordsearch from Teach Beside Me. Thought it would make a fun way for the lad to find words that he knows. In the past twenty four hours we probably had about a good foot of snow dropped on us. Since digging out took a bit of time we mostly had a snow day. I did ask the lad to do about 1/2 hour of school work though. Hubby has made the hill even bigger, so it should be even more fun! :) And it is learning to have to think as a seven year old....which way is the safest to go down? Which way is the funnest way? A while ago we found Nicky (female) on a walk. a month ago we bought Skitter (pregnant) in Kitchener.
Nicky had her babies. I dumped them out of their container on Monday as it was starting to reek. I"m AMAZED at how much fun my two fellows are having watching them. I've seen the antics of baby mice several times as I used to raise them for pet stores and what not. But the lad and his dad are having so much fun with these young critters. One of them is ill and will most likely die, but the three on the wheel seem to be doing just fine. I recognize that not everyone likes mice. They do make for interesting pets though, particularly if you let them have young. How is this homeschool related?
The lad did his math through A+Tutorsoft. He did exceptionally well on this today and earned two small stickers. We then did "target the question". We did two questions today so tomorrow we don't need to. The lad found this somewhat bothersome. Continued Essentials in Writing. He doing the grade one material as I haven't focused on doing writing with him and I figure we can zip through things we already know and move on from there. We did lesson 5B. I did not have him write out the whole sentence, but he did need to read it to me and correct the mistakes in the sentences. We worked some more on our First Nations people pages. the lad got inspired to draw larger pictures of the various homes they used. Here are some of the books we used today and yesterday some of the work the lad did on First Nations People So the day started off slowly with the lad wanting to watch his Dad play a computer game. They were having fun and I was moving slowly so that's just the way it went. Once we got started though things went well. The lad did his math through A+Tutorsoft. He complains but he actually likes this program. He just doesn't like it when I print off sheets for him to do. He'd rather do it all on-line. :) We then did "target the question". I thought the lad would like this program but thus far he finds it too easy and rather boring. Hoping it will improve as time goes along but right now...it's very much ACH. Started with Essentials in Writing. He doing the grade one material as I haven't focused on doing writing with him and I figure we can zip through things we already know and move on from there. Here we are doing lesson 5A. Yes, we skipped the first five lessons as well..they were too easy. And this lesson I thought would be easy but my... what you think will take five minutes stretched longer than that. The one question was about describing your brother/sister. he doesn't have one so I said pick something and give me five descriptive words for it. he did Star Trek: has phasers, space, ship, enemies. He argued about the having pets one because "MOM, I have all the pets that I want!" Then off we went to visit a friend for lunch and a chat/play time. Then off to do gymnastics. We didn't really do gymnastics today so much as we just had a let's play and have fun time as a group. He had fun and ran off some energy. :) To the library to work on some First Nations pages I had made up. First peoples of Canada website proved to be helpful.
We also borrowed some books from the library. We have one page left to fill out and we hope to make a long house tomorrow and Thursday. :) Then back to a friends house to play and relax and home for supper, some tv and bed. :) All in all a good day. We are currently reading a variety of books at night. 1. history of Canada. We read a full page spread every night. 2. 1 chapter in a Geronimo or Thea Stilton book. The lad needs to practice recall and guess what might happen next. He's also learning literary terms. 3. 1 or more chapters in a Captain Underpants book. yes, I know it's not "High" literature, but it makes a lad laugh. Makes me laugh, which encourages the fine art of reading for pleasure as well as for value. 4. Adventures of Riley. We learned about polar bears, orangutans, tigers and more. I have five of the books in the series and hope that there are some in the library as well. 6. We always read a bible story book at night as well. the one we are currently reading is TOO simple and easy, but it gives us a chance to talk about how the story is changed from the bible and where that is good or perhaps not so good.
And we're reading something else at night but can't recall right now what. This will do though to give an overview of where we are at right now. :) On this past Friday the lad and I made our way to St. Thomas. I had bunny business to conduct and my way was paid down (delivery of a pet bunny). My business is At Home Pets Rabbitry. I sell rabbits and guinea pigs (the lad helps). Anyways, we conducted our business and then off we went to make the most of our time. Earlier that morning the lad and I had talked about which of the three museums in St. Thomas we wanted to go to. The train station, the generic one or the military one. We had been to the train museum already so that was a no go. And after looking over the two websites the lad asked if we could PLEASE go to the military museum. I have to admit. I thought we'd be just browsing the museum after paying our admission. BUT that was not to be the case. We got there. The proprietors waived admission and a young lady gave us the tour. Normally takes about 1.5 hours, we shortened it a bit. They have some neat things in this museum and I see it coming out in the lad's play. :) This museum focuses on the actions of Elgin County residents in various wars. Boer war, WW1, WW2, War of 1812 (mostly 1813 for residents here), the Korean wars, and another war that I can't recall. Things of Interest that we Learned 1. To escape the affects of being gassed the soldiers urinated on rags and held that up to their faces. This surprised the Germans who expected everyone to be dead or incapacitated by the gassing, only to be fired upon when they came to "Clean up". 2. Rats were a significant problem in WWI, in the trenches. 3. Soldiers made some really neat trench art. (this has come out in play as the "soldier angry birds and pigs" are making fancy coats for themselves out of recycled pop bottles). Not quite accurate but good enough. :) 4. Jumbo had a made up story told about his death that many people still believe today. He was killed by an unscheduled train because he couldn't outrun it (not because he stopped to save Tiny Tim the smallest elephant). - this tale is coming out in play as the King pig has to save the minion and OH NO!!!!! They are going down the waterfall!!! It's a runaway pig!!! HELP!!! He's going to die mom, he's going to die!!! 5. Doing Morse Code is fun, and it's hard to learn the spacing of letters and words. Some Random Pics The lad very much enjoyed our time at this museum and came home with tons of ideas and thoughts bouncing around in his head.
I thought this was a good way to add some easy Canadian History into his noggin. :) As part of a blog cruise the question is put to me "what subject do I enjoy teaching the most". It's be released on Feb 12. I don't even hesitate to say.... whatever the lad is interested in at the moment. You know...those spontaneous Mom questions "mom, why doesn't God make it so everything can change like a grouper can?' Wouldn't that be handy mom?" I can't remember...ah.. now I remember. We were reading one of the Riley adventures books. In this book the author talked about how groupers are all born female but how some of them can turn into males when they are a year old. Pretty neat huh? That just grabbed the lad's attention and so we learned that most animals do not have this ability but some other animals do as well. Limpets, some worms, a type of fish called a sheephead that is born male but turns into a female, and a variety of other fishes as well. It's like WOW! Rather neat eh? :)
This process is called sequential hermaphroditism. Which I told the lad but he promptly forgot. :) But he found it interesting indeed...even where it is mostly aquatic species that have this ability. YaleNews was helpful in explaining why more animals don't do this. Anyways, I find doing this kind of learning the easiest. It is spontaneous. it is easily remembered. AND it is good learning. By the by...if you want books that can be good conversation starters among animal interested children...these Adventures of Riley books are excellent! |
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